A not guilty plea was entered on behalf of Nora T. Nelson by her lawyer during her arraignment Friday in the Charlestown division of Boston Municipal Court.

The Boston attorney who was found stabbed to death on his houseboat was wrapped and weighted down, a prosecutor said.

A Massachusetts woman was charged with murder in connection with the apparent stabbing death of a man who lived on a houseboat. Nora Nelson, 24, appeared in court for an arraignment on Feb. 7 to face charges for the murder of 65-year-old Joseph Donahue,

Police say a 24-year-old woman gave them fake names and refused to answer questions when they arrived at a Charlestown houseboat for a well-being check. She was arraigned Friday on a charge of murder.

A distraught friend of the victim said he was a Boston lawyer and a divorced father of three. Sources said his dog was also found dead in the harbor.

Police found the body of a 65-year-old man “wrapped in a white and blue covering, secured with duct tape, and affixed with weights” on his houseboat in Charlestown on Sunday, prosecutors said Friday during the arraignment of the 24-year-old woman charged with his murder.

A 24-year-old faces a murder charge in connection with the death of a man on a luxury houseboat in Boston on Sunday.

A Boston woman was charged with murder Friday in the stabbing death of a man whose body was found attached to weights and wrapped in duct tape on a houseboat in Charlestown.

A prosecutor revealed in court on Friday that an officer found the victim’s body “wrapped in a white and blue covering, secured with duct tape and affixed with weights."